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Two models have spoken out about the pressures they faced to stay skinny, shining a light on the continued body image issues fac

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问题     Two models have spoken out about the pressures they faced to stay skinny, shining a light on the continued body image issues faced by the fashion industry. Erin Heatherton, a former Victoria’s Secret model, has revealed that she was pressurised to lose weight by the fashion house.
    Model Rosie Nelson, who had a similar experience to Heatherton, adds that the issue is made more problematic by the disconnect between what the public think modelling involves and the reality of it. " People think it’s really glamorous and luxurious, with loads of freebies and getting paid millions. That’ s not the case. There’s an underlying pressure to stay thin and the thought that you will be rejected if your hips are too big."
    She said the industry sees models as "interchangable coat hangers" , writing that the key to success is the ability to stay a size 0-2 throughout your career. "Young models learn about it the hard way," she wrote. "If an agency catches the smallest weight gain, you are measured, told to lose weight immediately and reprimanded."
    Caryn Franklin, former co-editor of ID magazine and currently professor of Diversity at Kingston University, says that there is a culture of denial around the issue meaning that the fashion industry does not see what effect it is having in the wider world. "Women are made to self-objectify because they see objectification in fashion," she says. "Young women who have been engaging with fashion since they were seven or eight years old have been taught to see themselves as an exterior."
    Franklin adds that 30 years ago, models were shorter and bodies were more realistically proportioned. "Now the industry standard height is 5ft 11 in but the measurements that designers make to their samples haven’t changed. The taller model therefore is under pressure to reduce her body accordingly."
    The testimony of Heatherton and Nelson comes days after a bill in California, aimed at reducing eating disorders among models, cleared its first legal hurdle. The bill, which requires the state to develop health standards for models in the state, passed the Assembly Labour and Employment Committee. "The goal of the bill is not only to protect the health of the workers themselves, but also to help young people to emulate the models," said Democratic politician Marc Levine, who authored it.
    Last December, France banned excessively thin models, partly as a response to the death of Isabelle Caro, a 28-year-old model who died of an eating disorder (anorexia). In 2012, Israel passed a law banning underweight models, and Italy and Spain have taken similar measures. Nelson is hopeful that through a new generation of designers such as Nasir Mazhir, who streetcasts his models, there will be a change.
Two models exposes a lifestyle characterized by
选项 A、an unknown luxury.
B、extra benefits.
C、an enviable image.
D、extreme stress.
答案D
解析 (1)根据题目顺序，本题出处定位在第1、2段。(2)根据文章，“Heatherton被迫减轻体重”(第1段：pressurised)。“Rosie Nelson也有相似的经历，有保持体形的潜形压力”(第2段：an underlying pressure)。(3)对比四个备选，可确定选项[D]是模特生活的最大特点。
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